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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 104–108.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson Small Axe Incorporated 2005 On Mario Benjamin
Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson
n the New World, the baroque aesthetic takes a particular form. As a sensibility, it has
been incorrectly defi ned as excessive ornamentation. Th e baroque sensibility came...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the artist. This essay looks closely at one collaborative and two solo works by Mario Benjamin to explore the impact that commissioning projects has had on the development of a body of contemporary Haitian art represented as focusing on localistic catastrophe. In each case, the essay juxtaposes against...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 105–110.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Dionne Benjamin-Smith Small Axe Incorporated 2006 The Pink Elephant in the Room
Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Black Crab Pledge of Allegiance
From afar, you recognize this piece as representing the Bahamian flag. When you come near,
you realize there are other things going...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 53–57.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Mario Benjamin ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Mario Benjamin
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Rose Réjouis This essay compares Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin to argue that the most creative way of engaging with an elusive mode of meaning within any cultural source is to provide a tertium quid , a new “supplementary legibility” present neither in the source culture nor in the target...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
... the past two decades, situating developments in their socioeconomic and political context and considering them in relation to the international art trade. Central to the study is the work of Mario Benjamin, Maxence Denis, and Edouard Duval Carrié, but sections of the article are also devoted to women...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... 1924–25 essay “Goethe's Elective Affinities ,” Walter Benjamin draws on a curious concept of life. He elaborates a theory of criticism that turns on the distinction between critique, which is concerned with the philosophical contemplation of an artwork, and mere commentary. Benjamin enacts this mode...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of view of the fallen, the vanquished, that doubts the self-
congratulatory triumphalism of the Hegelian story. This is a conception of history associated
with the German philosophic critic Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide on the French-
Spanish border in September 1940 to avoid falling...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... months into conducting my ethnographic fieldwork in Guyana, the dismembered body of Samantha Benjamin, a US-based Afro-Guyanese woman, was discovered between the foreshore seawall of Annandale and Buxton, a historic African village located on the northern coast. 2 Contrasting sharply with the overcast...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 43–62.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., it is worth considering the fi nal pages of Walter Benjamin’s “Surrealism: Th e Last
Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” in order to help us account for Carter’s revo-
lutionary temper, his tendency toward silence, and his political disappointments during
the 1960s...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art: Second Version,” in Benjamin, Jennings, and Doherty, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility , 38. 15 Walter Benjamin, “Production, Reproduction, and Reception of the Work of Art,” in Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Brigid...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., Architecture, and
Planning. Her books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009), Thinking Past Terror:
Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing
of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000), The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the
Arcades...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 40–60.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... In this sense, Paula Burnett is particularly acute in closing the circle Homi Bhabha’s
discussion of Walcott leaves open, reminding us that Walcott’s vessel trope draws on Walter
Benjamin’s earlier conception of the dynamics of translation:2
1. Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Cultural...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 45–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
... representations and remembrances may be intensified. This also pries
open the door to history, insofar as those tendencies viewed as unimportant or worse yet non-
existent in a particular place and era may resurface in historical form in another era. Walter
Benjamin writes...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Revolution, which became very present again in the 2013 commemorations of the thirtieth anniversary of its traumatic demise, Scott beautifully evokes Walter Benjamin's tragic “sense of a stalled present, a present that stands out in its arrested movement.” 1 Jafari Allen also refers to a sense of time...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
...., 341, 342. 8 Maximilien Laroche, “Literature and Folklore in the Francophone Caribbean,” in A. James Arnold, ed., A History of Literature in the Caribbean , vol. 1, Hispanic and Francophone Regions (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994), 341–48. 7 Walter Benjamin, “The Task...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Small Axe Incorporated 2005 CONTRIBUTORS
Mario Benjamin was born in Port-au-Prince in 1964. A self-taught artist, he is one
of the most important artists to have emerged in Haiti since the 1980s. Since his fi rst
exhibition in 1983, he has become one of the leading fi gures...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of
Literature of the Caribbean, Vol. 3: Cross-Cultural Studies, ed. A. James Arnold (Amsterdam, Netherlands: John
Benjamins, 1994), 3–27; Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in " eory, Culture, and Race (London:
Routledge, 1995); and Marcus Wood, Blind Memory: Visual...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the states of exception that stood as the rule on which liberal democracy proceeded, the locus where historiographical and historico-philosophical links between totalitarianism and democracy preceded by several centuries the Nazi extermination camp. 30 In this view, we might approach Benjamin’s state...
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